# chapters 10 and 11 –braddon mitchel and jackson **Opening (not a real abstract):** If mental states are internal states, neurophysiological states in fact, what can we say about their structure? Obviously a full answer to this question awaits developments in neuroscience, but according to Jerry Fodor’s famous language o f thought hypothesis we can here and now say something rather general about the nature o f a certain class o f mental states, those variously known as intentional states, states with content, or propositional attitudes - namely, they are sentence-like. Before we say more about what this amounts to, we need to indicate the relevant class o f mental states. Some mental states can be described using indicative “ — ' ! ’ , . , . r i Propositional attitudes sentences or statements in that clauses - for example, _______________ Fred’s belief that snow is white and his desire that the